Fall out rate

Do you have any idea at all what the fallout rate of approved driving instructors is?  How many people are getting qualified and leaving the industry within 2 years of registering with the DVSA?

Would be kind of useful to know don't you think?  Especially if you are about to embark on a career change as a driving instructor!

The fact is that the fallout rate is kept pretty hush-hush in the industry.  I dare say it is technically possible for the DVSA to crunch some data numbers, and track ADI's to see if those that are handing back their green badges (or allowing them to elapse and not renewing) are recently qualified.  But they seemingly don't.  So it simply is not possible to get that figure for you, believe me if I could publish it, I would.

But what we do have, and I have previously published this data in this blog, is the amount of newly qualified ADI's coming into the industry per quarter, as well as the total number of ADI's on the register.  As such, you can deduce from that (albeit a rather course calculation) that there are indeed a significant number of ADI's leaving the industry.  What we don't know though, is how many are due to natural wastage, and how many are newly qualified.

All I can say to you if you have got this far in this blog is that I've been monitoring this since I qualified and it is incredible how many new, flash driving school cars pop up constantly and yet they do not hang around for long..... I really do mean incredible.  I'm not suggesting that all of these equate to the ADI handing back that green badge, some I guess could be moving location or specialising in other areas of driving training.

I've put a FOI request in with the DVSA, will report back how I get on.

[UPDATE]:  This is the response I received today (10/10/2018):

A report was produced by the ADI branch of those ADI’s, who have asked to have their names removed from the ADI register in the last five calendar years. The report compared the date of issue of the ADI’s first full certificate which is the date their name was added to the register, and the date their name was removed from the register.

In each of the last five calendar years, there are no instructors who were on the register for less than one full registration period of four years